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Some of our reusable bags are so old, they have logos of grocery chains that no longer exist.
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I’m thinking about the clothes in my closet (towels, bedsheets too) and how that measures up with the four canvas tote bags I own. I don’t even buy new clothes very often. Looking at the fashion industry, not buying another canvas tote seems about as impactful as not using plastic straws.
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most(!) clothing these days is made from plastic; I dont know if these are even accounted for in the yearly ~70 million tons of plastic waste (out of ~160 million tons total) thats been dumped in the open. “recycling” is not gonna solve this. there is no “recycling” - burn it.
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“Fast Fashion” is bad, but textiles can be recycled, right? For example, my attic insulation is made from recycled fabric. (Not sure if they need to sort out all the different types of fabrics when processing them, though)
were talking here about ~90 million tons every year! 60-65% of that is plastic. and we saw for the last decades how “good” “recycling” of plastics at scale worked, didnt we? the shit is fucking everywhere!
Of the 100 billion garments produced each year, 92 million tonnes end up in landfills. To put things in perspective, this means that the equivalent of a rubbish truck full of clothes ends up on landfill sites every second. If the trend continues, the number of fast fashion waste is expected to soar up to 134 million tonnes a year by the end of the decade.
fucking burn it!
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We’re gonna need a lot more fungi…
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I was going to say, my mother still has (and USES) some bags from a store that closed when I still lived there, 30+ years ago. She used to get such weird attitude about her reusable bags, back in the 80s, but Ma never gave a fig about it.
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I’ll see if my friend has a pattern that could somehow be posted here, or emailed, or something of the electronic sort.
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Thanks but I’ve found a few places that have instructions online. It’s apparently a thing that’s more common than I realized.
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